Help with hiding/showing DIVs

[LazarusLong42]

OK, a bit of a problem:

I have a dynamically generated page that has a rollover div that needs to be displayed for each of a number of links.

Now, this is easy enough to do on a small scale: as part of the loop that dynamically generates the page, I have a separate hidedivlinkID() and showdivlinkID() function, and it works really well except in NS4.x, which I'm not supporting.

However, once the list of links grows to a certain size--and in this case the list has grown to about 150--the page takes on a rather large size. At this point, it's around 250K.

What I'd like to do is have a single pair of functions in the header script:

function showdiv(linkID) { }
function hidediv(linkID) { }

Such that I can call them easily. The problem comes in at the point where I try to pass the linkID out of the function, into the style-changing parts of the function. To wit:

    function showdiv(linkID) {
        linkID.style.visibility = "visible"
        document.getElementById("legend").style.visibility = "hidden"
    } // End showdiv 

doesn't work. (The "legend" div is separate and unique; it's not overduplicated). Similarly,

    function showdiv(linkID) {
        document.getElementById(linkID).style.visibility = "visible"
        document.getElementById("legend").style.visibility = "hidden"
    } // End showdiv 

doesn't work.

Is there any way to make this work... or am I stuck with a bunch of extra functions on my page?

Eric Snyder II

(Edit: Closed tag. --ES2)

[Vincent Puglia]

250K?????

Have you tried cutting the page into 5 or more pages? Remember, you are writing a web page, not a database engine. The reason I suggest this, I have heard of sites crashing, losing information, etc. once the page becomes overly large.

Categorize your links; have a main page that then transfers control to a specific page, dependent upon the category.

Vinny

[LazarusLong42]

Mea culpa... I didn't make it clear that this _is_ a database frontend. It's a site that allows people to easiliy create and control play-by-email games for a strategy game (yet another Chess In Space variant).

The page in question is a listing of all of the avilable games. It rarely will be viewed, but it's impossible to categorize them _and_ view all at the same time. Since there are nigh 100 games currently in progress, this causes the page size to be high even without being nice-looking.

(Through other edits, the page size is now down at 170K. The text-based, non-JS page is at 80K.)

So... any thoughts on the initial question?

Eric Snyder II/LL